Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1887-11-13
VIEWS OF A HEATHEN.
Wong Chin Foo Picks Few Flaws In
Our CiYliiZat.0n-Chlnese 1ppre.
citation OF Modern FInsncfer.Bgs
How Civilized People Drive Each Other 20
the Wall-American Politcs-old
PeopIs-Mothcrhooa.
Wong Ching Foo in New York World.


in western civilization is the way the
American moguls make their money.
There's nothing smsll about them IN their
grabbing desires, their ability to make
millions upon nothing, and the remark
ably civilized way they are allowed to do
it takes the beathen's eye. II that fnsn-
ciering secret is introduced into China by
a missionary ike Count Mitkiewicz, OF
the Chinese banking syndicate, the entire
empire will become willing converts IN q
single dsY. To such profit able enterprise
even II. I. M. the Emperor would Join In.
And then goodbye to the Chinese laun-
dries throughout the United States, ana
the now troublesome social and political
problem Of Chinese immigration would be
e thing Cf tie past.
THE MERCENARY AMERICANS.
To turn to more serious things, l con-
TESS do not understand why, for mat
ter of mere existence, civilized people SO
cruelty and persistently crowd each other
to the wall. From day to day, even
through the night under the electric
blsz., they engage in wild struggle Tor
existence. when heaven has made the
earth to give forth her abundance for
their comforts without the necessity OF
their killing each other TO set Il. -
thew don't even allow their beasts OF bur-
den time to masticste their food properly.
No wonder they fall by the roadside.
Misery is desperate and crime ram
pant, and the few successful in their
financial and social aims "drop off )" J1st
cs they are all ready to enjoy life. Look
at lower Broadway during business hours
on any day, especially in and about Full
ton street. Why, the intensity OF the
struggle for worldly existence as mani
tested there is simply enough to freeze
the nerves CT any contemplating heatnen'
Cui bono? What q life! Oh, superior
beings! is there no more Tomorrow Is
this the modern method of preparing for
| the future? No wonder your heart dis
ease is common and your insane asylums
are crowded. HISS civilization so a.
vauced that it perpetually makes men
willing slaves in mart OF consLanL anu
cruel mental anguish?
Fashion, style and habit make It neces-
ssry for such terrible contentious, proos-
bIv, I hsve seen how, in the most "ciVlI-
| lied" part of the United States, family
Of six, poor and almost dependent, Will
buy or hire an expensive music box called
q piano, and place it in the parlor just Tor
show, and lust because other families Who
are better of than they have the same
thing. The heather prefers to have 10
pisno, but have something good to eat
and wear.
VIEW OF OUR POLITICS.
| In politics among the civilized Aner!-
! can nation, it seems to me, everybody Is
| boss in the matter of government ana
nobody is boss after an except IN the
matter of "boodle" business. Every
body wants the Doodle, but only a few
J are getting it, As rule the fifth class
LAWYERS rule. II the supply OF these
runs short descent is made upon the
saloons and liquor dives to occupy the
positions of trust. Such men as the late
Wendell Phillips, Beecher, Horace
GreeIcv and other intellectual giants are
lett to die unrewarded by grateful peo-
pie. They are afraid such men may not
be shrewd enough to plumber tnem
quickly enough.
Now, where does all the money 60 that
is consequent upon this outrageous up
to-neck" taxation by this glorious repuo-
IicP Certainly the salaries OF its o1fclals
do not eat it up, as they are, with hardly
an exception, the poorest paid officials IN
the world. Even second grade marda-
rim of China gets bigger salary than the
President of the entire United States-at
least twice the amount. And yet there
sre more officials in China by at least ten
times than there are in the United
Ssates, ard the taxation IN that
country is so light that the
people hardly feel the loss, there
being no taxation upon anything IN
msny of the provinces except salt and
land actually cultivated. Upon the lat
ter there is something less than : per
cent. of the grains raised, and upon the
former l per cent. There is absolutely
no tax upon homesteads or real estate
not actually under cultivation, nor any
personal property tax. Yet the Imperial
treasury of China is one of the richest IN
Asia, There is not dollar OF national
debt except that owed to the Europeans
some years ago, when the opium was
forced upon the heathens for the heath
ens' good. Even that outrageous amount
has been largely psid off by the economl'
cal heather politicians.
PLACE FOR RICH YOUNG MEN.
Ill were young man, especially II
were handsome and had generous "olo
man. at my back with liberal pocket
book, should prefer TO live IN ameIlcs
to any other place on earth. But L shoulc
take good care not to get old, for this II
: a country where old men and women in
ysriably take back seat. Sometime!
they are not even allowed the comfort
any seat 81 ali. II is only here that tnt
old men and women are servants OF the
healthiul youth of either sex. Itseems tt
be- common law among the people here tt
raise and support children as sumptuousl,
as their means permit and continu
to support them, even long after they ar
, able to earn their own living. But whel
/ it comes to the old peoples turn senti
ment seems to dwindle down almost t.
zero. In society the young men are tn
center OF attraction. They are tn
3 blooming flowers. The old people ar
= shut up in the kitchen behind the doors
What muss the people OF this countr
make of their love business! Are tn
e Understandings of the American yout
s obtuse? Itfrequently takes years OF thei
valuable time to whisper ardent love t
each other, and frequently, at tn
very LAST moment, they suddenly fin
out that they did not love eac
other at all. "They were simply tryin
opfk too